Traditional Music

Notice the new tab on the website? Yes, it says Workshops! Yours truly is doing her first clinic at the Ontario String Association’s Spring String Conference, coming up soon on Saturday, April 21st, 2018 at North Toronto Collegiate in Toronto. … Read More

Creating an Authentic Aural Traditional Music Experience Fiddle tunes are short, catchy and pretty easy to memorize. When you put a fiddle tune in front of students, they just can’t wait to play it, and the violas, cellos, and … Read More

The Learning Potential of the Humble Fiddle Tune When I first moved back to the big city and started teaching string classes again, I wasn’t sure how I was going to approach teaching fiddle tunes to my students aside … Read More

The Practice of Celtic Music This is Part 2 in Fiddle Tune Season, a series about how to teach Celtic fiddle music to your violin, viola, cello and bass students. Many string players are curious about Celtic fiddle music and … Read More

It’s January and that means… it’s Fiddle Tune season in my classroom! Every year at this time, in all my classes, we get out the fiddle tunes. I choose this time because it tends be down-time from school performances, so … Read More

Looking for fiddle tunes to teach the class? Need tunes transposed for viola, cello and bass? Did you know that there are many, many skills you can teach through fiddle tunes? Read about all the great reasons to teach fiddle … Read More

Acadian* Music for your Students Do you want to incorporate some French Canadian and East Coast fiddle music into your private lessons or classroom? Last week my daughter and I attended an awesome performance by our favourite Acadian group, Vishtèn. … Read More

So, what’s an Asian chick doing posting on St. Patrick’s Day about Irish music? It’s a long story, but the short version is, I got lured away by Cape Breton and East Coast music many years ago, I abandoned classical … Read More

Hello. I am a beginning Viola student and I wanted to take the time to tell you how wonderful your teaching system is. If I were to reorganize a…
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Rob Windsor

Smartmusicteacher.com is the one place you will find everything you need: blog posts, reviews, teaching materials, inspiration, and just great ideas that I’ve never come across before. Not only…
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Alessia D.
- Toronto

Smart Music Teacher contains a lot of very useful resources that Instrumental teachers can use in their classrooms. I have used Smart Fingering Charts for Strings with Middle School…
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